AMD is collaborating with Oriole Networks in support of the UK'sAdvanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) Scaling Inference Lab, a national initiative designed to address critical AI infrastructure bottlenecks. The effort combines Oriole's PRISM photonic networking architecture with AMD Instinct? GPUs and AMD EPYC?

processors to evaluate new approaches for scaling inference workloads while improving performance and energy efficiency and reducing latency. The initiative supports what is expected to be the world's first large-scale AI system powered by a pure photonic network, an important step toward infrastructure technologies that can support future generations of AI systems in the UK.